COMP 475: Supporting Literacies

Course Description

COMP 475will help prepare advanced undergraduate students to be successful as writing tutors and/or as supporters of literacy development in diverse higher education and community contexts (work in university writing centers, community literacy organizations, service learning courses, etc.) through sustained focus on the theoretical and practical issues involved in the teaching and tutoring of writing. The course also will help students make explicit connections between the teaching and learning of writing in various college classroom contexts (i.e., writing-across-the-curriculum) and other sites of literacy work. A range of writing projects will provide students with opportunities also to hone their own abilities as reflective and critical writers. (F, YR).